The medical and surgical uses of electricity, including the X-ray, Finsen light, vibratory therapeutics, and high-frequency currents / by A. D. Rockwell ... with two hundred and fifty-two illustrations.

Date:
1903
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Credit: The medical and surgical uses of electricity, including the X-ray, Finsen light, vibratory therapeutics, and high-frequency currents / by A. D. Rockwell ... with two hundred and fifty-two illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PREFACE. The work of Beard and Rockwell, after passing through eight edi- tions, was in 1896 thoroughly revised by the present writer. The old stereotyped plates were destroyed, all illustrations newly drawn, and much of the book rewritten. In issuing a new edition, no less pains has been taken to keep the work fully abreast the times. Six chapters have been added—in which are discussed with sufficient fullness, it is believed, the subjects of X-Ray Diagnosis and Therapeutics, the Finsen Light, Vibratory Therapeutics and High Frequency Currents. Several chapters in the body of the work have been entirely rewritten and numer- ous alterations and additions made throughout. Some of the old illustrations have been omitted and fifty new ones added. The nutritional influence of electricity is now as always the central idea of the work. This idea was thus enunciated in the preface to the original edition. I St. Electrization, besides being merely a local stimulant, also exercises an influence over general and local nutrition at once unique and unrivalled, entitling it to the highest rank among constitutional tonics. as of every other remedy, constitutional diseases should be treated constitutionally. “3d. That the best'method of bringing the whole system under the direct influence of the current is by general electrization as here de- scribed; and that by the use of this method the success of electro-ther- apeutics IS materially enhanced, and its sphere very greatly widened, include a variety of frequent and distressing constitutional morbid conditions, for which merely localized electrization is but imper- fectly indicated.” General faradization and central galvanization, then for the first time described, were the only methods of electrization readily at com-